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About Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University where he teaches literature and photography, and writes frequently about photography, art, literature, and other subjects. He is also the host of the podcast “Think About It” and editorial director at Warbler Press. Twitter: @UliBaer; Intragram. Caroline Weber is a specialist of French literature, history, and culture. She is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City. Twitter: @CorklinedRoom. Instagram.

NBN Episodes hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber:

The Proust Questionnaire Podcast October 24, 2022

Proust Questionnaire 37

Dame Zandra Rhodes, Fashion Designer

Zandra Rhode

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Dame Zandra Rhodes is an English fashion and textile designer who has designed garments for Diana, Princess of Wales and numerous celebrities such as rock stars Freddie Mercury and Marc …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast December 30, 2021

The Proust Questionnaire 36

Haaz Sleiman, Actor

Haaz Sleiman

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Haaz Sleiman (هاز سليمان) is a Lebanese actor who has appeared as Tarek in Tom McCarthy’s 2007 award-winning film The Visitor, for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast July 8, 2021

Proust Questionnaire 35

Calvin Sun, Emergency Physician, World Traveler: Monsoon Diaries

Calvin Sun

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
The Proust Questionnaire hosts individuals who make a difference in various ways. Meet Calvin D. Sun, M.D., an emergency room physician who's worked at several of New York City's major …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast March 12, 2021

Proust Questionnaire 34

Kasi Lemmons, Film Director

Kasi Lemmons

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Kasi Lemmons is an award-winning director, writer, actress and professor who has been a staple in Hollywood for nearly three decades. Her acclaimed 1997 feature directorial debut, “Eve’s Bayou, was …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast January 28, 2021

Proust Questionnaire 33

Cécile David-Weill, Novelist

Cécile David-Weill

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Cécile David-Weill is a French American author who is born and based in New York. She published her first novel Crush (Grove Press, 1997) under the name of Cécile de …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast December 30, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 32

Daniel Kehlmann, Novelist

Daniel Kehlmann

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Daniel Kehlmann is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality. His novel Die Vermessung der Welt (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as Measuring the …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast December 11, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 31

Maurice Samuels, Historian

Maurice Samuels

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Maurice Samuels is the author of several books: The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France; Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France; The Right to …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast November 25, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 30

Ori Gersht, Photographer

Ori Gersht

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Exploding flower arrangements, meticulously staged scenes of beautiful destruction, haunted landscapes, still lives brought to their sublime end as if a host of angels unfolded their terrible wings just a …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast November 18, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 29

Elliot Ackerman and Lea Carpenter, Novelists

Elliot Ackerman and Lea Carpenter

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Today's we're speaking to a married couple, both esteemed novelists. Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, Red Dress In Black …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast November 2, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 28

Samantha Boardman, Psychiatrist

Samantha Boardman

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Samantha Boardman, MD, is a psychiatrist and a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry and Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York City. In her private practice as well …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast October 23, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 27

Alice Wu, Filmmaker

Alice Wu

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Alice Wu's debut feature, Saving Face, is a three-generation romantic comedy set in today's Chinatown in Queens, New York. Wu won the Visionary Award at the San Diego Asian Film …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast October 22, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 26

Miranda Penn Turin, Photographer

Miranda Penn Turin

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Miranda Penn Turin is a freelance photographer and director who has been specializing in portraiture, fashion and beauty for over thirty years. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and splits …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast October 22, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 26

Miranda Penn Turin, Photographer

Miranda Penn Turin

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Miranda Penn Turin is a freelance photographer and director who has been specializing in portraiture, fashion and beauty for over thirty years. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and splits …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast September 18, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 25

Jeremy Harris, Playwright

Jeremy Harris

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Jeremy O. Harris is an American actor and playwright, known for his plays Daddy and Slave Play. He was the winner of the 2018 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, given by …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast August 31, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 24

Christine Coulson, Writer

Christine Coulson

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
What happens in museum when the crowds have gone? Christine Coulson's exquisite book, Metropolitan Stories, imagines the inner lives of the artworks and precious objects that tell us so much …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast August 21, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 23

Sameh Zoabi, Filmmaker/Director

Sameh Zoabi

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Sameh Zoabi is a Palestinian filmmaker who was born and raised in Israel. His feature film, Tel Aviv on Fire, chronicles the making of a daytime soap opera in contemporary …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast August 18, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 22

Miriam Bridenne, Bookseller

Miriam Bridenne

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Miriam Bridenne is the Deputy Director of Albertine Books, the French bookstore housed in the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City. Prior to coming to Albertine …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast August 14, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 21

Hugh Evans, Humanitarian

Hugh Evans

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Hugh Evans is an Australian humanitarian, co-founder of both The Oaktree Foundation and Global Citizen, a Global Poverty Project. At 14, Evans spent the night in a Manila slum. The …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast August 11, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 20

Maira Kalman, Artist

Maira Kalman

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She was raised in bucolic Riverdale, the Bronx. Maira has …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast August 7, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 19

Seph Rodney, Writer/Editor

Seph Rodney

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Deeply informed, passionately committed and always invested in the truth, Seph Rodney's writings about art and culture have earned him a broad following among those who like their criticism not …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast August 4, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 17

Etgar Keret, Writer/Filmmaker

Etgar Keret

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Etgar Keret is a globally celebrated author and filmmaker who exposes the absurdity of daily life in our modern world, and through a Kafkaesque lens remind us that things ought …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast August 4, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 18

Anna Condo, Artist

Anna Condo

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Anna is a French director and photographer who was born in Armenia and now lives in New York City. A trained actor and film director, in 1998 she published her …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast July 28, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 16

Sarah McNally, Bookseller

Sarah McNally

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Sarah McNally is the founder and owner of three windows into the world of letters in New York City: the McNally bookstores, renowned not only in NYC but around the …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast July 24, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 15

Omar Victor Diop, Photographer

Omar Victor Diop

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Omar Victor Diop is a Senegalese photographer whose historical auto-portraits, where he places himself in settings and poses previously occupied by historical figures, have been exhibited around the world. Born …